I Saw a Man - Brossura

Sheers Owen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 057131774X ISBN 13: 9780571317745

Casa editrice: FABER & FABER, 2016

Riassunto

After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London to start again. Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters. The friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a devastating event changes all their lives, and Michael finds himself bearing the burden of grief and a terrible secret.

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Recensione:

An exemplary domestic thriller, with an unstoppable plot and lots of expertly detonated surprises. (Sunday Times Best Reads on the Beach)

A tense, intelligent page-turner. (The Times Best Summer Reads)

A gripping and stylish thriller ... finely tuned suspense that erupts into visceral drama ... An award-winning poet, his honed prose is full of images of photographic sharpness that leap from the page. But this is also a novel driven by ideas, which, in keeping with its central theme, spins out across the world ... bold and satisfying. (Daily Mail)

Extraordinarily tense and powerful, and beautifully written (Mail on Sunday)

Sheers' thriller is driven as much by subtle ideas as suspense ... psychologically astute ... Sheers writes carefully about careless people and the results present the reader with a reflective window on to self-deception ... a clever novel. (Independent)

It twists and turns and plays its cards close to its chest, showing its full hand only in the final pages, when we are forced to reassess everything that has gone before ... taut as a thriller, but resonant with motifs of intimacy and distance, guilt and redemption, and the nature of stories and storytelling. (Sarah Crown, Guardian)

A powerful, dark study of brutality, grief and guilt ... There are so many expertly detonated surprises ... Immensely pleasurable ... This is an exemplary thriller, clever, classy, slick - and always one step ahead of the reader. (Sunday Times)

A rare and luscious treat for the reader. (The Times)

The story is at its most gripping when untangling the "causal web" leading to tragic consequences, spanning out to New York and the Nevada deserts ... A profound meditation on memory and mourning. (Observer)

A powerful moral thriller ... Sheers skilfully drip-feeds the reader his characters' secrets and lies, including a remarkable sequence leading up to the book's central, shocking moment of revelation ... I Saw a Man's ending is similarly bravura, elegantly throwing into new light much of what has gone before. (Literary Review)

Descrizione del libro:

A gorgeously written contemporary thriller for Ian McEwan fans about responsibility and redemption

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• Editore: FABER & FABER
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 057131774X
• ISBN 13: 9780571317745
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 311